Activism Quotes
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Activism Quotes & Sayings
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Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.
— Annie Lennox
Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?
— Julia Bacha
I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.
— Angelina Jolie
Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.
— Barack Obama
Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
— Anita Roddick
Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.
— Swami Vivekananda
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
16 days of activism? I don't know about you folks, but I'm an activist every single day.
— Christina Engela
Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
— Saul D. Alinsky
I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.
— Allan Dare Pearce
Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.
— Mal Fletcher
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
— Thomas Paine
Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
— Alice Walker
Promoting the human capacity to reason and make decisions: that is the purpose of whistle-blowing, of activism, of political journalism.
— Glenn Greenwald
The most effective form of activism is kindness.
— Bryant McGill
I'm struggling to keep up with her pace. Though I'm taller, she's built for speed and I'm built for political activism.
— Jani Berghuis
If I look at the mass I will never act.
— Mother Teresa
One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is thecapacity to listen. — Carolyn Baker
For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.
— Mike McCurry
Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.
— Daryl Hannah
My attention since 'Clueless' has been on family, relationships, activism, the planet, and my career.
— Alicia Silverstone
Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.
— Blythe Danner
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Stop praying for salvation when it is clear,You are the saviours that we need around here. — Harry Whitewolf
Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.
— Barack Obama
Thou shalt not stand idly by
— Anonymous
What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.
— Shannon L. Alder
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
— Audre Lorde
The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.
— Rivera Sun
The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.
— John Capecci And Timothy Cage
Until you find a cause you can die for, you are not worthy to live.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Could it be that following our initiatory path and connecting with higher source wisdom might actually be one of our species' best defense systems?
— Jonathan Talat Phillips
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.
— Philip Yancey
Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.
— Rebecca Solnit
Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.
— Bethann Hardison
Words are fossilized butterfly wings,pretty to look at sometimes,
but only good for Museums.
I want to miserably burn down the Museums. — Jeremiah Walton
You decide your own level of involvement.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful ... get up and be America the beautiful.
— Rivera Sun
In my mind, there's no logical conclusion that can be drawn, other than that I was fired for my activism.
— Chris Kluwe
The purpose of activism and art, or at least of mine, is to make a world in which people are producers of meaning, not consumers, and
— Rebecca Solnit
My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.
— Steve Earle
Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life.
— Ronnie Gilbert
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
— Anita Roddick
We struggled to understand how a contract with the so-called secular state could mandate some kind of spiritual ritual.
— Maggie Nelson
You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage.
— Tony Cleaver
Your politics are so far right,They're wrong. — Harry Whitewolf
Everything's urgent to a Democrat.
— Carol Sobeski
Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.
— Janine Di Giovanni
The church wanted us to give out food to malnourished children, but they didn't want us to question why they were malnourished to begin with.
— Elvia Alvarado
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
— Albert Einstein
Fundamentally, what all forms of positive thinking about collapse come down to is our own fear of death.
— Carolyn Baker
To devote yourself to someone else's pussy can be a means of devoting yourself to your own.
— Maggie Nelson
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.
— Leo Tolstoy
There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person's mind.
— Shannon L. Alder
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
— Howard Zinn
A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.
— Rebecca Solnit
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
— Elie Wiesel
We urgently need to do - and I mean actually do - something radical to avert a global catastrophe. But I don't think we will.I think we're fucked. — Stephen Emmott
Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.
— Malcolm Gladwell
I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.
— Randall Robinson
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
— Vandana Shiva
I detect the activist returning with a vengence.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.
— Robert Conquest
So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.
— Michael Kinsley
Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
— Scott Thompson
Arise,awake,stop not until your goal is achieved.
— Swami Vivekananda
You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society.
— Maya Harris
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.
— Shannon L. Alder
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
— Sally Kirkland
Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.
— William Baldwin
So often our power lies not in ourselves, but in how we help others find their own strength.
— Amy Lee Peine
The power of our activism, campaigns, movements, and strategies cannot forgive sins or raise the dead.
— Michael S. Horton
For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
— Fady Joudah
What good is a revolution anyway if it isn't joyful?
— Jonathan Talat Phillips